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Catch the Ace is a progressive lottery where participants select an envelope containing a card. Each week, one ticket is drawn, and if the selected envelope contains the Ace of Spades, the winner receives the jackpot. Proceeds support local charities.
One of the questions we often hear is about envelopes and winnings. Envelopes do not belong to one person; they are available for selection by hundreds or even thousands of buyers. You do not purchase an envelope number, you select one.
ONLY the one draw winner picks an envelope and ONLY the one winner can win the jackpot. He/she has their envelope opened, if it is the Ace of Spades, they win the jackpot, if it is not, that envelope number is retired from play and there is one less envelope in next week’s draw.
To make it clearer perhaps, in our August 18th, 2024, draw, just counting our online purchases only, 1,614 people selected envelope # 13…there were 13 envelopes left, 11,793 total electronic ticket purchases.
It is irrelevant how many people select the same envelope number, again, it only matters to the one person whose ticket is drawn, ONLY that one person can win the jackpot. Those are the rules as specified by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.
There are three reasons purchasers are not receiving their email receipts which are automated;
You do not require a receipt to win, everything is captured on our servers.
However, if you want to check, please send us an email at CTAHelpdesk@kinclubofrussell.ca and we can verify your purchases; if you do so please indicate that you have already checked your spam folder (with thousands of tickets being purchased every week it can be time consuming on our volunteers), the name on the tickets and when you purchased them. We will send an email back verifying your data and also confirming your envelope choices.
If you absolutely require a receipt, for example as a gift etc., please send us an email exactly as above, indicating you have already checked your spam folder, your name on the tickets and when you purchased them and that you require a receipt. It will be forwarded to you again from our Club or personal email account.
The Kin Club monitors its emails very regularly. Contact us for Catch the Ace HelpDesk requirements at CTAHelpdesk@kinclubofrussell.ca with your phone number included.
Contact us for non-Catch the Ace communications at kinclubofrussell@gmail.com
The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario’s lottery rules clearly state that tickets can only be purchased within the Province of Ontario. If you are visiting Ontario, you are eligible to play as long as the ticket(s) are purchased at the time you are physically within the province.
However, if you are in Ontario and using a computer/device/service provider from outside the Province of Ontario, our Google Maps location software may indicate you are not in the Province.
If this is the case, we offer you the following options to purchase tickets;
Only the remaining available envelope numbers appear when ordering tickets online. You must select an envelope number for each ticket purchased. You may select different envelope numbers, or the same envelope number for multiple purchases. It is only the one ticket drawn from the raffle bin that counts.
You can make your purchase of multiple tickets with multiple envelope choices in one transaction.
